Attention German bluegrass and old time music lovers! The 2017 edition of the Bluegrass Jamboree! package tour starts next week with 24 dates in Germany, Netherlands, and Austria leading up to Christmas week. Each year since 2009 Rainer Zellner has brought
Prominent resonator and steel guitarist Cindy Cashdollar was injured last Thursday in a single vehicle accident near her home in Woodstock, NY. Among the greatest fears of traveling musicians is falling asleep while driving, a not unrealistic fear given the many
Bill Jones doesn't fit the profile of a bluegrass entertainer. The singer/songwriter living now in Crockett, TX works by day as a railcar repair facility plant manager, and he rediscovered the allure of the bluegrass way through the jamming scene
Australian bluegrass singer Kristy Cox has released a second single from her upcoming 2018 album for Mountain Fever Records. This one is a new Christmas song from Kasey Chambers, I Still Pray, delivered in the traditional bluegrass Gospel format. The track
Swedish grasser Jimmy Sunnebrandt and his wife, Mikaela, are celebrating the birth of their second child this week. Milia was born on November 11, and Jimmy tells us that they had a recording of Alison Krauss and Union Station playing
We've written several times this year about Tommy Long, guitarist and lead vocalist with Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, and his ongoing battle with throat cancer. Tommy stepped aside from the band in March when he got the diagnosis, and
Nashville publicist Martha Moore, President of so much Moore media, was the recipient of an International Services To Industry Award at the recent British Country Music Awards in Wolverhampton, UK. She was presented with her award by BCMA President Lee
Matt Umanov Guitars, a fixture in New York's Greenwich Village for 35 years, has announced the imminent closing of their shop on Manhattan's Bleecker Street. Their last day of operation is set for December 3, after 48 years in business.
Steve Martin has released a third music video from his newly-released project, The Long-Awaited Album, with The Steep Canyon Rangers. It's an animated feature, created by LA-based Fantoons, that follows the story of Steve's composition from the album, Santa Fe. In
Skip and Stephanie Cherryholmes are celebrating yesterday's birth of their first child, Aiden Miles Cherryholmes. Both mom and dad are bluegrass folks. Skip grew up as a member of the Cherryholmes Band, and now plays guitar with Sideline. Steph grew up
